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Sam Glaser entered the Jewish music field in 1991 with albums embraced by the full spectrum of the Jewish world. As one of the first full-time traveling Jewish performers, he paved the way for other artists on a circuit of North American Jewish institutions. He produces and arranges his own recordings and those of other artists.
Ishay Ribo (Hebrew: ישי ריבו, born February 3, 1989) is an Israeli singer-songwriter.A Sephardic Orthodox Jew, he has gained popularity in Israel among Haredi, national-religious, and secular Jewish audiences.
An early influence on Orthodox pop was the 1971 album Or Chodosh, the debut of an eponymous group created by Sh'or Yoshuv roommates Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, who would later create the group Regesh, and Yossi Toiv, later known as Country Yossi; the group performed at Brooklyn College with David Werdyger's son, the young Mordechai Ben David, opening for them.
Dedi began his music career providing back-up vocals on Mordechai Ben David's albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [1] In 1995 he performed with Ben David at two Sukkot concerts in Israel, one in Haifa that drew 3,000 participants and one at Yad Eliyahu Stadium in Tel Aviv that attracted 10,000 people.
Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
Steinmetz sings religious Jewish songs, with the lyrics often being taken directly from scripture or prayers, and is known for the great emotion he puts into his music. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In accordance with his ultra-Orthodox interpretation of the Jewish laws of modesty , he never performs to mixed audiences of men and women, unless there is a ...
Yosi Piamenta (Hebrew: יוסי פיאמנטה; 29 November 1951 – 23 August 2015) was an Orthodox Jewish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for introducing the electric guitar to Jewish music. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Piamenta played rock and roll tunes, often infused with heavy rock licks and extended guitar solos – all while dressed in Orthodox ...
[2] [3] In the mid-1990s, as he became more religious, he changed his name from Gilad Kardunos to Yosef Karduner. [ 5 ] During one session of secluded prayer (" hitbodedut "), he created the tune for Shir LaMaalot (" Song to the Ascents "— Psalm 121 ), and one of his teachers urged him to resume his music career, this time in a vein related ...